Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wave of raping, looting and shooting. Many of the attacks were the work of gangs of roving civilian bullies. But some of Mobutu's soldiers, sent into the African city to search for arms and political enemies, had roughed up their quarry, had in some instances proved trigger-happy. Already angered by Mobutu's threat to bring an armored unit into Léopoldville to impose his will, Dayal called the bespectacled colonel on the carpet before an array of U.N. brass, issued a blunt warning that the army's illegal and arbitrary acts would no longer...
Threatened Control. The human personality is peculiarly vulnerable to the shock of a sudden assault from behind, argue Drs. Leopold and Dillon. This, they theorize, may trigger a "denial mechanism" that prevents the victim from coming to terms emotionally with the meaning and discomfort of his injury. They add: "The fact that the head and neck are the sites of injury adds to this distortion . . . almost as if the ego unconsciously perceives that the control (head) can be severed from the body. It is our thesis that the whiplash injury is psychologically unique in that both its suddenness...
Since there is little chance that the United States can trigger an internal revolt against Castro without meeting the oppositionof Latin America, it would be well for Kennedy and Nixon to admit that little can be done with Cuba while the American people are incapable of accepting any compromise. Castro may yet learn that he cannot impose unlimited drafts on the endurance and loyalty of the Cuban people, and any Cuban regime which hopes to carry out his ambitious social programs will need aid. But there will be no hope for at least a neutralist Cuba, accepting aid from both...
Steppingstones? Nixon picked up Kennedy's trigger-happy charge on the first go-round, tossed it back with the reminder that the last three wars (World War I, World War II and Korea) had begun in Democratic Administrations. ("I do not mean by that that one party is a war party...
...assume its responsibilities. If we fight the U.N., well, we fight the U.N. We have delayed long enough." But as usual in the Congo, when the zero hour arrived, nothing happened. Mobutu and his men backed down, and the threatening Congolese soldiers at Lumumba's house relaxed their trigger fingers and began to doze on the lawn...